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Over the course of the day and as best as we can tell right now, what happened today in mali, there were multiple attackers, they were armed with guns and possibly grenades and they held upwards of 100 civilian hostages from many different countries, u.n. workers, all sort of people and in the end, the attackers are all said to have been killed by security services on scene and the death toll for the civilians is thought to be about 20 people at this point. again, i stress those numbers are subject to change as we gelt more confirmed reports out of the capital city of mali after this terrible ...

Imminent threat of an attack in the brussels region and this is just hours after a terrorist attack was launched against a hotel in mali. there has been one claim of responsibility for that attack and it's still unclear who is responsible and whether we should see this latest attack is related to isis, al qaeda, both, or neither. here is former fbi agent and an expert in counterterrorism. thank you for being here. does it matter in a counterterrorism sense? >> absolutely. you have to know who's behind the attack and if it's isis, the situation is very different than al qaeda. in this case, it'...

Al qaeda a commander has been killed in chad. the army says they killed maktar in a. >> the attack on the oil refinery gas plant, january 2013 and in the march, the leader of the attack, the one-eyed guy reported to be dead. they said they killed him in chad. he was not dead. they did not kill him in chad because you fast forward and this past june he was reported to be dead yet again, this time thanks to fighter jets targeting him in libya. >> libya's interim government says he was killed in the attack along with other militants but hes death has not been confirmed. >> so, this one-eyed guy, ...

It's a little bit of a sideshow. it's interesting, and, you know, it gets -- the most interesting part to me is the substantive questions about our intervention in libya and what's happening with al qaeda in north africa. when you look at the things washington is talking about at the end of the day, i see a bureaucratic turf war. i see cia and state pointing the finger at each other for who dropped the ball on the security in that compound. i don't see a white house cover-up. by the way, to the point former vice president cheney made, you know, if they were trying to tell a lie about the video...

I see cia and state pointing the finger at each other for who dropped the ball on the security in that compound. i don't see a white house cover-up. by the way, to the point former vice president cheney made, you know, if they were trying to tell a lie about the video and demonstrations, it lasted three days. voters went to the polls knowing there had been an al qaeda affiliated attack there. what was covered up? a cover-up that lasted 72 hours. a pretty inept one. i don't see scandal there. >> the harm done was to romney by a tenth of a point. >> romney had an issue to hit obama with because ...